On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, James Kelty wrote: > Hello, all, and thanks for the tapedev advice from earlier. But! Alas, I am, > once again, running into a little problem. This one has to do with > permissions! > > I am getting the below errors about /sbin/dump, and /etc/dumpdates. Any, and > all help would be great! > > -James > > [amanda@warbaby docs]$ id > uid=55(amanda) gid=6(disk) groups=6(disk),4(adm),55(backup) > > > [amanda@warbaby docs]$ ls -l /etc/dumpdates > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root disk 0 Mar 29 15:53 /etc/dumpdates > > [amanda@warbaby docs]$ ls -l /sbin/dump > -rwxr-x--- 1 root adm 50140 Feb 14 2001 /sbin/dump > [snip] > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > -------------------------------- > ERROR: 192.168.10.49: [can not execute /sbin/dump: Permission denied] > ERROR: 192.168.10.49: [can not read/write /etc/dumpdates: Permission denied] > Client check: 1 host checked in 0.021 seconds, 2 problems found > > (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2) > > James Kelty > Sr. Unix Systems Administrator > The Ashland Agency > 541.488.0801 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Does the amanda user have permission to write to /etc? As that user, just try to the dumpdates files. Confirm the group permissions on /sbin as well, though that should be ok. Does the /tmp/amanda debug files on the client lend any further insight into this? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
